Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right-wing Hindu-backed Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) formed the state government in Uttar Pradesh , and BJP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh had invited an all-party delegation to visit the site after coming under criticism from nearly all political parties for allegedly violating court orders regarding the disputed plot . |
| 2 | PLYMOUTH had to survive a spirited comeback from Peterborough last night to earn an FA Cup third round tie at Ipswich Town . |
| 3 | I KNEW that Earl Spencer had made a special provision in his will . |
| 4 | Cunningham had spent an agreeable week in the country with his friend Van Cheele . |
| 5 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 6 | Fakrid and Jinkwa had spent an anxious hour waiting for the Doctor . |
| 7 | Although a number of embassies in Kuwait had defied the Iraqi orders that they should close by Aug.24 [ see p. 37639 ] , all but a dozen ( including the USA , Canada and eight EC countries ) had abandoned them by Aug. 12 because of conditions there . |
| 8 | When Matey had ventured a favourable comment about his midnight drinking having stopped , he had simply said , ‘ You must thank McAllister for that , ’ and so her influence seemed to be a good one . |
| 9 | Terence Blacker had made a small bet with himself that he would be the first speaker to mention children 's books : he won . |
| 10 | Defence counsel stated that Adams had made a full admission . |
| 11 | One-o-one squadron originally set up in 1917 , was reformed in 1984 as one of only two refuelling squadrons , after the Falklands had shown a strategic use of air-to-air refuelling . |
| 12 | By June , when the war was over , the Falklands had entered the British vocabulary : a word with mixed connotations of heroism , waste , duplicity , valour and a desperate , atavistic yearning for national pride . |
| 13 | On Oct. 1 the United States cut off economic and military aid , worth between US$564 million and $578 million in 1991 , following renewed fears that Pakistan had developed a nuclear weapon . |
| 14 | In October 1990 the USA had suspended military aid following fears that Pakistan had developed a nuclear weapon [ see pp. 37764 ; 38289 ] . |
| 15 | Donna had re-attached the back door to its frame as well , while Julie mopped up the blood in the hallway — although she finally passed out during the task . |
| 16 | The most important indicator was the role of the Commission which under the guidance of Walter Hallstein had played the active role hoped for by ardent Europeanists , overcoming the diminution of the supranational element in the EEC as compared to the ECSC . |
| 17 | A second attempt by Admiral Rodney to attack the transports at Le Havre had found the defences there too strong for his bomb-vessels to get within range , while a storm off Dunkirk had enabled a French squadron shut up in the port to make its escape . |
| 18 | Before Carver had left Helsinki Galvone had secreted a tiny bug inside Carver 's case . |
| 19 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |
| 20 | Even recently a white South African registered surprise on hearing that Nelson Mandela could speak , 40 years on , with fresh enthusiasm of a Neil Harvey innings , 151 at Kingsmead , Durban in 1951 , that Mandela had seen the young Harvey score . |
| 21 | By this time Hill had become a recognized Evangelical leader in Oxford . |
| 22 | Would you rather Galatea had remained a cold block of marble after all ? ’ |
| 23 | P&O 's Rajputana had enjoyed a spotless record as an armed merchant cruiser before she fell victim to German submarine attack . |
| 24 | Gorbachev had made an official visit to India in November 1986 , concluding with the signature of a ‘ Delhi Declaration ’ in which both sides pledged themselves to the peaceful resolution of international disputes . |
| 25 | On Dec. 16 the then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had issued a presidential decree abolishing the Baltic military district and renaming the troop divisions stationed there the " north-eastern group " — terminology reserved for Soviet troops stationed in a foreign country . |
| 26 | Reporting the Lithuanian response , the official Soviet news agency Tass on March 19 announced that Gorbachev had ordered the Soviet government to implement " a number of immediate measures " in the light of information which " bears witness to the fact that the present leadership of the republic has embarked on a path of crude violations of constitutional order and of arbitrarily deciding matters which affect the interest of the USSR " . |
| 27 | As she slipped into the water beside them Rachel was aware that David had thrown a large orange ball into the pool before jumping in himself , and within seconds she found herself part of a noisy , boisterous game of water hand-ball . |
| 28 | During this time Alcock had begun the long process of memorising the night sky ; by 1932 he already knew the position of most stars that can be seen by the naked eye . |
| 29 | Few people in Polruan knew much about what went on behind the big iron gates that guarded the entrance to Roscarrock Hall , because Sir Gregory had taken the prudent step of making his household almost self-sufficient , and traders were seldom required to call . |
| 30 | Rafiq had dug a twelve-foot hole at the bottom of the garden , and then , in the grip of one of his periodic fits of depression , had abandoned it to the spring rain . |